Disney bought the rights to the franchise for $4 billion – and they’ve already made back a quarter of that with just one film after two weeks – and they asked J.J. Abrams to helm the new story.

It was clear from the interview that George was a bit miffed that once the studio had bought the rights, they ‘weren’t that keen’ to have him involved.

And he also wasn’t happy with how vintage the film felt, as it paid homage to the original trilogy.

George Lucas signs autographs at the London premiere of The Force Awakens (Picture: Getty Images)

‘They wanted to do a retro movie,’ he said. ‘I don’t like that. Every movie, I worked very hard to make them different. I made them completely different — different planets, different spaceships to make it new.’

Though he did acknowledge that if he was asked to be involved he was ‘just going to cause trouble because they’re not going to do what I want them to do’.

‘All I would do is muck everything up,’ he added.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens is out now.

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